Despite the song's success, other songs such as " I Don't Know ", " No No No ", " Just Won't Do Right ", and " Chonnie-On-Chon " failed to chart.

Despite the song's name, Poison Ivy wasn't the inspiration for this song but, due to the lyrics describing a girl with a very similar attitude to Ivy, it was quickly associated to the character.

Despite the song's seven minute, twenty-one second length, Webb released " MacArthur Park " as a single, and it quickly reached Number 2 on the singles chart.

Despite the song's iconic status, it has received mixed reviews from music critics since its release.

Despite the song's appeal to cover artists, it has appeared sparingly on Dylan's compilation and live albums.

Despite the song's success at AC radio, it would be Wright's last charting single in the United States.

Despite being performed in French, the song's obvious sexual tone resulted in a widescale ban from mainstream radio stations, and Fontana deleted the single during its chart ascent, allegedly because the wife of Fontana's boss was appalled at her husband's company releasing such a song.

Despite censorship and airplay issues, a censored version of the song's music video received ample airplay on North America's music channels, fueling its popularity there.

Despite the song's popularity, not all critics were complimentary upon release.

Despite his contribution to the song's lyrics, Ringo Starr is not credited as a co-author of " Badge ".

Despite the song's lyrics, Williamson has comically confessed to concert audiences that he didn't actually meet his wife Mary-Kay in The Boomerang Cafe but actually by a water tank.

Despite being a cover, the song's wistful yearning for the simpler days of a bucolic childhood had personal significance for Battin, as he explained during a 1979 interview: "' Lazy Waters ' was a serious song.

" Despite denials, a track titled " Everytime ", which appeared on Spears ' fourth studio album, In the Zone ( 2003 ), was written in large part as a response to " Cry Me a River ", according to the song's co-writer Annet Artani.

Despite rumours surrounding the song's meaning, lead singer Justin Hawkins has refuted suggestions that the lyrics pertain to pubic lice or sexually transmitted infections: " People have said it's about pubic lice, but that's obviously wrong because pubic lice don't grow on you, do they?

Despite this, Fielding pointed out the mentions of " coco pops " and " milk ", calling them ludicrous yet laughable, and praised the song's production.

Despite the song's mento influences, " Day-O ( The Banana Boat Song )" is widely known as an example of calypso music.

Despite the song's immense worldwide popularity, very few original versions ( not remixes ) of it are available on the UK iTunes Store or any of the original songs from 2 Unlimited's album Get Ready !, the only one of this song being the Rapversion Edit, on the soundtrack for the film Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.

Despite the fundamental philosophical differences between the free software movement and the open source movement, the official definitions of free software by the Free Software Foundation and of open source software by the Open Source Initiative basically refer to the same software licences, with a few minor exceptions.

Despite another minor uprising led by General Ferrera in 1925, Paz Barahona's administration was, by Honduran standards, rather tranquil.

Despite general agreement that the rainbow uniforms identified with the team had become tired ( and looked too much like a minor league team according to the new owners ), the new uniforms and caps were never especially popular with fans.

Despite widespread condemnation of her scholarship some minor aspects of her work continued to have supporters.

Despite the astronauts ' test pilot experience NASA at first envisioned them as " minor participants " during their flights, causing many conflicts between the astronauts and engineers during the spacecraft's design.

Despite the fundamental philosophical differences between the free software movement and the open source movement, the official definitions of free software by the Free Software Foundation and of open source software by the Open Source Initiative basically refer to the same software licenses, with a few minor exceptions.

Despite the dominance of the human race, the Traveller universe is cosmopolitan, and is divided into a handful of major races and a large number of minor races.

Despite his age and bulk, Grace continued to play minor cricket for several years after his retirement from the first-class version.

Despite the river being minor and seasonal, it supported several sawmills in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Despite remaining a minor party in Italian Parliament for fifty years, its leader Giuseppe Saragat became President of Italy in 1964.

Despite these minor differences, fraternal relations exist between Lodges of corresponding degrees under different Grand Lodges.

Despite its vast forests, Bolivia has only a minor timber industry.

Despite his preparations and intentions to cow the Jews, Diodotus was entirely unsuccessful, and left the region under the rule of Jonathan's brother Simon, with little gain beyond a minor tribute of 100 talents.

Despite having minor supporting roles, Abbott and Costello stole the film with their classic routines, including an abbreviated version of " Who's On First?

Despite the minor differences between them, Marcus Aurelius grieved the loss of his adoptive brother.

Despite the relative low number of Polynesian languages, and the relative abundance of data already available on many of them, the comparative method was often reduced to comparisons of vocabulary, its shared sporadic sound changes and, as Wilson did in 1985, comparison of pronominal systems which is perhaps the second most commonly described aspect of " minor " languages often available for comparison after the lexicostatistical lists.

Despite their Beatlesque image, the band's use of minor chords, haunting harmonies, and folky acoustic guitar playing — as heard on their debut single " Laugh, Laugh "— was stylistically very similar to the later folk rock of The Byrds.

Despite never garnering the amount of attention that Stranger Than Fiction received, it would score Bad Religion a minor U. S. radio hit with the song " A Walk " as well as the European release of " Punk Rock Song " ( sung in both English and German ).

Despite this official opening ceremony, minor work still remained to bring the extension to the standard required to run regular passenger trains, but regular train services began on 29 May 1976.

Despite Miki's personal popularity with the public, the Lockheed scandal reflected poorly on the party, which lost its overall majority in the 1976 election to the Diet and had to make deals with minor parties to remain in power.

Despite this difference, in practice the major and minor triads are treated equally in Schenkerian analysis.

Despite its position as one of the minor political parties in the Finnish parliament it has frequently been one of the partners forming the governing coalition cabinets.

Despite receiving lukewarm reviews and not being as commercially successful as the Lemonheads ' previous two albums, It's a Shame About Ray and Come On Feel the Lemonheads, Car Button Cloth has gained a minor cult following in recent years.

Despite these minor victories and Chennault's reinforcement of the " Panda Bears " with pilots from the " Adam and Eves ", by mid-February, only 10 P-40s were still operational at Mingaladon.

Despite suffering several minor strokes, Fender continued to produce guitars and basses.